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Decided to go against this. he has realized that there are big political concerns about the project were he to approve it. and the other thing that is coming up shortly in about a month from now, and we expect to go to paris for the climate summit and it is difficult for the president to go to climate summit having approved the project, and so there were a lot of political considerations for this, and just in alaska the last month -- >> jim, jim, i have to interrupt, here is president obama. >> ...

Mour, including russias latest moves to suspend flights to egypt as well. now, another major story that we are following. following a seven-year political fight and huge political fight p pitting the oil companies against each other, and republicans and democrat, it looks like the battle of the keystone xl pipeline done for no now. >> several years ago the state department began a review process for the proposed construction of a pipeline to carry canadian crude oil through our heartland to th...

Keystone xl pipeline. you talked about how thorny of a political issue this is so we expect that environmentalists, a lot of democrats are going to cheer this announcement. a lot of republicans and some democrats who supported this pipeline project will criticize the president and say hes playing politics. look, they are argue its a job creator, it would have created several thousand -- back to you. >> good morning, everybody. several years ago, the state department began a review process for th...

Join another pipeline and take it to the gulf coast for refining. it has been a controversial issue for years throughout this administration and even before that. now we understand mr. obama is going to announce his opposition to the pipeline. the pipeline as far as we understand it for now will not be built. arthel: this will be fodder for conversation on the debates coming up. it will be interesting to see if the president does confirm he will reject the keystone pipeline. it will be interesti...

And very loud political activism not to mention loud partisan taunting from the republican side throughout the obama presidency. transcanada asking the obama administration to essentially shelf their application seems like basically the last we would hear about keystone for a very long time. certainly for the remainder of the obama presidency but a funny thing happened on the way of transcanada asking the obama administration to suspend the application for keystone. the obama administration has ...

Well get back to you and then responded today essentially, yeah, we understand youd like us to stop the review process for the pipeline but well go ahead and not do that. the state department says they intend to complete the review of keystone, a rhee view under way to great controversy for years now. im not sure what transcanada was expecting for a response trying to pull the project but i imagine this wasnt it. >> given how long its taken, its -- it seems unusual to me to suggest that somehow ...

To decide yay or nay on the pipeline. so they withdrew their application. kevin corke at the white house on i guess everyone quitting at the same time? whats going on? >> youre the best. >> eh. >> no doubt about it, eh. that was fantastic. here is the real deal. trans canada, and ill show the folks at home, they have written a letter to the state department not asking to kill the project, but theyre for a delay in the review process and really what is behind it they say is this legal wrangling i...

Goes back to that balancing of risk and reward that were always doing. >> going back to the arb conducted by admiral mullen and ambassador pickerring, how many of their recommendations did you as accept of state accept? >> i accepted all of them. they made 29 recommendations, comewoman. i accepted all 29 of them, and began to implement them before i left the state department, and i know that secretary kerry has continued that work. >> do you recommend for future secretaries and for this committe...

We were doing and others we are prohibited. it goes back to that balancing of risk and reward that were always doing. >> going back to the arb conducted by ambassador pickering, how many of their recommendations did you as secretary of state accept? >> i accepted all of them. they made 29 recommendations, congresswoman. i accepted all 29 of them. and began to implement them before i left the state department and i know that secretary kerry has continued that work. >>. >> do you recommend for thi...

So the isat process initially looked at the 19 posts. thats great they come back with a report. its kind of like the seven reports for this and now we have another committee. we keep having committees look into benghazi but we never act on them. it doesnt help our men and women on the ground. thats what im focused on. so, what i want to know with these isats, they came back with their recommendations to you. have they been resourced? are they institutionalized? what has been done with this proce...